“The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.” WellsEyeAmericaDifferencesDarkEuropeJewNosesCharacteristicsNativeLatterTraitsCheeksHarshPalestineJerusalemProminentCoarseEurope And AmericaJewish Family Book:The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain Source: The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain
“In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are essential to ongoing life even if we do not always know precisely how, when or where they perform their tasks, and the not knowing - the flimsy, filmy elusiveness - is supremely characteristic of America's expressions of religious dissent. For in the United States no stalwart orthodoxy stands ever ready to parry the sharp thrust or clever feints of dissent.” IfsKnowsStatesAmericaReligiousUnitedUnited StatesKnowingAtheismReadyExpressionEssentialsTasksCleverCharacteristicsNot KnowingJuiceOngoingDissentThrustOrthodoxyElusiveStalwartElusiveness Author:Edwin Gaustad
“As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper Yellowstone and the like afford the greatest natural shows, I am not so sure but the prairies and plains, while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the esthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest, and make North America's characteristic landscape.” KnowsGivingFirstsShowsFeelingsLastsAmericaFallNaturalMy OwnStandardsSightClaimsLandscapeCharacteristicsSceneryStunningNorth AmericaThoughts And FeelingsPrairieYosemiteNiagaraYellowstoneNiagara Falls Book:Specimen Days & Collect Source: Specimen Days & Collect
“America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.” AmericaValuesCultureSilenceQualityStyleCommunicationDirectEastCharacteristicsGermanyPrivacyIndividualismDominantIntrovertRestraintAsiaFast PacedNoisyFinlandEast Asia Author:Laurie Helgoe